Agents of the criminal gang in Washington DC referring to themselves as the US government are alleging that there are a number of cellular site simulators engaged in surveillance which they cannot attribute to their own spy operations (archived). The simulators commonly referred to as 'stingrays' are frequently deployed by the USG as part of their criminal operations. Whether the presence of these stingrays is a case of one hand not noticing what the other is doing or something else, this story is likely to be used by the USG to push their agenda of undermining network security even further.